Feb 28, 2023
On February 13, Colleen McDermott spoke onstage at St. Louis Public Radio for The Story Collider. Here, they reflect on their experience and the power of storytelling in science.
Tysonite Rachel Penczykowski wins prestigious NSF CAREER award
Jan 30, 2023
This highly sought-after NSF award is reserved for early career faculty who excel at mentoring while successfully integrating research and education. Through the TERA program, the award will provide paid internships to high school students who will work on the project with Rachel and her research team.
Apply for the 2023 Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program
Jan 27, 2023
The Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program provides college students the chance to work elbow-to-elbow with a mentor on current environmental research projects. Applications for summer 2023 are due February 15. Read perspectives from some of last year’s undergraduate fellows!
‘Humans of Tyson’ project highlighted at statewide conference
Dec 1, 2022
Tyson Undergraduate Fellow Colleen McDermott presented a talk on the “Humans of Tyson” project during the 2022 Kansas and Missouri Environmental Education Conference, held Nov. 4-5 in Kansas City. They also presented a poster on the ArcGIS StoryMap-based interactive project about the summer 2022 Tyson community.
SEEDS STL leaders chosen to attend national meeting
Nov 28, 2022
Sam Ko and Dev Mukundan had all expenses covered to attend the SEEDS leadership meeting held at the Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments & Societies. Sponsored by Tyson, SEEDS STL is the St. Louis chapter of the Ecological Society of America’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability Program.
WashU video highlighting Tyson wins Regional Emmy Award
Nov 8, 2022
Congratulations to our colleagues in WashU Marketing & Communication! The video “Our world by degrees: In search of refuge” highlights research at Tyson Research Center and at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
ForestGEO Spotlight: Anna Wassel and the Pawpaw Patrol
Trio of publications explain regional mosquito patterns
Liz Carlen's urban squirrel research (video)
Former Tyson undergrad fellow publishes forest spatial biodiversity findings
May 31, 2022
Previously a member of Jonathan Myers’ Forest Biodiversity Team, Jacqueline Reu is first author on research published in the journal Ecology. The study determined that tree beta diversity matters more for ecosystem functioning than other components of biodiversity at larger scales.
Canid conservation program launched
Apr 21, 2022
WashU and the Living Earth Collaborative are part of a new Missouri-based conservation initiative led by the Saint Louis Zoo. Working with the Endangered Wolf Center and Tyson, scientists are looking to answer ecological and health-related questions about canids — red foxes, gray foxes and coyotes — as well as bobcats, which live in close association with canids.
7 years of Tyson forest 'seed rain' contributes to global study
TERAs share Tyson bat research at Owl-o-Ween
Tysonite Stan Strembicki interviewed by STL Public Radio
"Hot topic" article by Tyson humanities fellow published in The Ampersand
Humans of Tyson 2021
Tyson scientists and collaborators publish multi-city investigation of "luxury effect" on wildlife
Aug 18, 2021
In Global Change Biology, recent research from the Urban Wildlife Information Network explores how mammal diversity varies with economic factors and urban intensity. Tyson scientists Solny Adalsteinsson and Beth Biro, and collaborator Whitney Anthonysamy, contributed to this large-scale effort to understand patterns of wildlife species in urban areas.
